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A PDF of the Conference Program 2 Table of Contents Welcome from President 3 ALA Officers and Executive Committee 3 Conference Organizing Committees 4 Summary Schedule of Events and Sponsors 5 Keynote Speakers 7 Daily Schedules and Concurrent Panels 10 A Wednesday, May 23rd 2-3:30pm 10 B Wednesday, May 23rd, 3:45-5:15pm 12 C Thursday, May 24th, 9:00-10:30am 15 D Thursday, May 24th, 10:45am-12:15pm 18 E Thursday, May 24th, 1:30-3:00pm 21 F Thursday, May 24th, 3:15-4:45pm 24 G Friday, May 25th, 9:00-10:30am 28 H Friday, May 25th, 10:45am-12:15pm 31 I Friday, May 25th, 1:30-3:00pm 34 J Friday, May 25th, 3:15-4:45pm 37 K Saturday, May 26th, 9:00-10:30am 40 Index of Participants 44 Floor Plans, Marriot Wardman Park 57 3 The African Literature Association (ALA) welcomes you to our 44th annual meeting and conference, May 23-28, 2018. Over the next five days, we invite you to help yourself to the many intellectual fora at which the well- being of African expressive arts and their entanglements, skywards and earthwards, will be discussed. On behalf of the association, I thank the Conference Planning Committee, without whose tireless, voluntary, and unpaid, work over the past year made possible our coming together here. It is important that we single out three individuals for praise. First is Juliana Makuchi Nfah Abbenyi, our immediate past president and chair of the planning committee, who oversaw the process and created the road map from the scratch; second is Beth Willey, the program committee chair who had to discipline the myriad proposals into the beautiful order we have here; and finally Matt Brown, whose data keeping and tracking efforts kept us from getting lost in the bush of number. ALA President ALA! Forever Adélékè Adéẹ̀ kọ́ 2017-2018 ALA Officers President Adélékè Adéẹ̀ kọ́ , Vice President Cilas Kemedjio Past President Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi Secretary Anne Carlson ALA Executive Council Council Terms Expiring in Council Terms Expiring in Council Terms Expiring in 2018 2019 2020 Tsitsi Jaji Joyce Ashuntantang Gaurav Desai Ann Elizabeth Willey Grace Musila Stephanie Newell Joya Uraizee P. Julie Papaioannou Ketu Katrak Journal of the African Literature Association (JALA) Editor Tejumola Olaniyan ALA Webmaster Matthew H. Brown ALA Headquarters Director: James McCorkle Hobart & William Smith Colleges 300 Pulteney Street Geneva, NY 14456 Ph 315.781.3491, Fx 315.781.3822 4 Organizing Committees for 2018ALA, 44th Annual Conference 2018 ALA Conference Liaison ● Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi, North Carolina State University; Immediate Past President of the ALA Conference Planning Committee ● Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi, North Carolina State University; Chair ● Moradewun Adejunmobi, University of California—Davis ● Gaurav Desai, University of Michigan—Ann Arbor ● Cilas Kemedjio, University of Rochester ● Besi Muhonja, James Madison University ● Tejumola Olaniyan, University of Wisconsin—Madison ● Julie Papaioannou, University of Rochester ● Molly Slavin, Emory University Local Organizing Committee ● Ziad Bentahar, Townson University; Chair ● Clement Akassi, Howard University ● Blessing Diala-Ogamba, Coppin State University ● Kandioura Dramé, University of Virginia ● Lindsey Green-Simms, American University ● Jeanne-Marie Jackson, Johns Hopkins University ● Leonard Muaka, Howard University ● Besi Muhonja, James Madison University Program Committee ● Beth Willey, University of Louisville; Chair ● Susan Andrade, University of Pittsburgh ● Kanika Batra, Texas Tech University ● Anne Carlson, Spelman College ● Helen Chukwuma, Jackson State University ● Carmela Garritano, Texas A&M University ● Ken Harrow, Michigan State University ● Madhu Krishnan, University of Bristol ● Simon Lewis, College of Charleston ● Eustace Palmer, Georgia College and State University ● Geetha Ramanathan, West Chester University ● Boukary Sawadogo, City College, CUNY ● Joya Uraizee, St. Louis University 5 Summary Schedule of Events Wednesday, May 23rd 12:00-5:00pm Registration Registration B, Mezzanine Level 2-3:30pm Concurrent Panels A 3:45-5:15pm Concurrent Panels B 5:30-700pm Opening Reception Thurgood Marshall Ballroom 7:15-8:30pm An Evening of Remembrances for Professor Francis Abiola Irele Madison A Thursday, May 24th 7:00-9:00am Executive Committee Meeting Congressional Room 7:00am-8:30am Caucus Meeting: GSCALA Hoover 8:30am-4:30pm Registration Registration B, Mezzanine Level 9:00-10:30am Concurrent Panels C 10:45am-12:15 pm Concurrent Panels D 12:00-1:30 pm Caucus Luncheon WOCALA 1:30-2:30pm Caucus Luncheon LHCALA 1:30-3:00pm Concurrent Panels E 3:15-4:45pm Concurrent Panels F 5:30pm Keynote Lecture: Helon Habila “The Future of African Literature" Thurgood Marshall Ballroom 7:30-8:30pm “Soundings: Readings in Mother Tongue African Languages” Madison A 7:30-9:00pm Caucus Meeting: LHCALA Jackson Caucus Meeting: FRACALA Johnson 8:30-9:30pm Caucus Meeting: TRACALA Truman Friday, May 25th 7:00-9:00am Executive Committee Meeting Congressional Room 7.00-8.30am Caucus Meeting: NACALA Tyler 8:30am-4:30pm Registration Registration B, Mezzanine Level 9:00-10:30am Concurrent Panels G 10:45am-12:15pm Concurrent Panels H 12:00-1:00pm Caucus Luncheon FRACALA 1:30-3:00pm Concurrent Panels I 3:15-4:45pm Concurrent Panels J 5:00-6:30pm Keynote Lecture: Carli Coetzee "Unsettling the Air-Conditioned Room" Thurgood Marshall Ballroom 7:30-9:00pm Caucus Meeting WOCALA Madison B 6 Saturday, May 26th 7:00-9:00am Executive Committee Meeting Congressional Room 8:30-10:30am Registration Registration B, Mezzanine Level 9:00-10:30am Concurrent Panels K 11:00 am-12:30pm: Keynote Lecture Ato Quayson "From Nation-and-Narration to the Diasporic Cultural Economy and Scientific Utopias: Notes Toward a Literary History of African Writing" Thurgood Marshall Ballroom 12:30-1:00pm Commemorating the Life & Work of Keorapetse Kgositsile Madison A 2:00-5:00pm Annual Business Meeting Thurgood Marshall Ballroom 6:30pm Banquet Thurgood Marshall Ballroom 8:00pm Dance Thurgood Marshall Ballroom Sunday, May 27th 9:00-10:30am Executive Committee Meeting Congressional Room The ALA gratefully acknowledges the sponsorship of Howard University African Studies Center Johns Hopkins Center for Africana Studies James Madison University College of Arts and Letters University of Louisville Office of Diversity and International Affairs 7 Keynote Speakers Thursday, May 24th, 5:30pm Venue: Thurgood Marshall Ballroom Helon Habila "The Future of African Literature" The talk will be based on the idea of 'environments', focusing on two types of environment, the physical environment and the mental environment. The first will look at the ecological concerns that inspired my novel, Oil on Water, accompanied by readings from the book itself. The 'mental environments' section will focus on the 'environment of fear'--a rising tide of unease emanating from world politics today. This environment seeks to limit and diminish the presence of the African, in Africa itself and around the world. In Africa because of repressive and dysfunctional politics, leading to an unprecedented wave of emigration, in Europe and America due to the rise of racist and anti-immigration populist politics. How does the African writer respond to these troubling trends? How does he/she overcome these fears and create art that demystifies the forces militating against the African today? This part of the talk will be accompanied by readings from my book, The Chibok Girls. Helon Habila was born in Nigeria. He is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at George Mason University in Virginia. His novels include, Waiting for an Angel (2002), Measuring Time (2007), and Oil on Water (2010). He is the editor of the Granta Book of African Short Story (2011). Habila’s novels, poems, and short stories have won many honors and awards, including the Commonwealth Prize for Best First Novel (Africa Section), the Caine Prize, the Virginia Library Foundation Award for Fiction, and most recently the Windham-Campbell Prize. Habila is a regular contributor to the UK Guardian, and he has been a contributing editor to the VQR since 2004. His most current book is a nonfiction account of the 2014 kidnapping of schoolgirls in Nigeria titled, The Chibok Girls: The Boko Haram Kidnappings and Islamist Militancy in Nigeria. Habila lives in Virginia with his family. 8 Friday, May 25th, 5:00pm Venue: Thurgood Marshall Ballroom Carli Coetzee "Unsettling the Air-Conditioned Room" In order for the African Literature Association to fulfil our stated aim of “nkyin kyin – changing oneself: playing many roles”, we shall need to look beyond the well-ordered and air- conditioned spaces that we think of as the publishing environments of African literary scholarship. Journal editors and peer reviewers, I argue, have a crucial role to play in this activist project. The literary scholarship that gets published in academic journals reflects and replicates particular conversations, and privileges authors schooled in certain methodologies. The friendships and collaborations between scholars of African literature based in different regions of the world are evident in the ongoing work and membership of the ALA, and make the organisation and its gatherings distinctive. Yet in order for publishing patterns to shift, we need to build not only better communication channels between north and south, but perhaps more crucially between the different intellectual traditions represented by literary scholars at universities on the African continent itself. Such a re-orientation will arrest and trouble assumptions that what skews
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